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JOSEPH DILL AND EDWARD nien, or GRAND'RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

Leners Patent No. 95,441, amd october 5,1869.

IMPROVEMENT IFN METHOD OF FRMING- MQULDING'S.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part ofthe-name.

To all whom it may concerti:

Be' it known that'we, JosEPHADILL and EDWARD l RICE, both of GrandRapids, in the county of Kent, and State of Michigan, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Straight Mouldings for Picture and otherFrames; and we .do hereby declare the following to be a full and correctdescription of the same, suiiicient to enable others skilled in the artto which our invention appertains, to fully understand and Ilse thesame, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which make partof this specification, and in which- Figures 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5,represent end views ofdifferent forms ot' mouldings for frames, 85e.

Like letters of' reference indicate` like parts in the several figures.

Our invention consists in straight mouldings forv picture and oth'erframes, produced 4as hereinafter described. v v

A represents the base-pieces of the vframe-mould ing, provided withfemale dovetails to receive the moulding-strip B.

We have represented the base-piece asmade of dark wood, and themoulding-strips B of light, and C of dark wood, although the strips maybe made ofthe same kind of wood, it' desired.

llre strips B are provided, at their under side, with maledovetails,which slide in the female -dovetails of base A, and on'their upper sidewitlrfemale dovetails, which receive the male dovetails on the underside ot' strips C, which, in figs. l, 2, 4, and 5, form thefinishing-strips. f

In iig. 3, we have shown the simplest forni of moulding for the'plainest frames, consisting only of the base A and one strip B, which,in this case, forms the finishing-strip.

In g. 4, we show the base and strips as provided with male dovetails ontheir upper, and female dove- In iig. 5, at D, is shown a corner'moulding-strip,- and in iig. 1, at E, an edge-strip, which latter maybe,l formed by constructing the base A of two pieces tof@ gether, (asindicated in dotted lines,) sliding-the full strip E into a dovetailproperly plreparedfor it,"and then cutting it in two.

rlhis strip 'E will, ofcourse, have to be glued in,

though the strips B GD need not be glued, but merely driven into eachother.

The great advantage of our frames is, that an endless variety can beproduced without beingobliged to have a complete, full moulding for eachvariety..

The dealer, in serving his customer', can, by merely sliding differentmoulding-strips into each other and the base, produce a .very largevariety of frames for the customer to select from, and, as themouldingstrips can be made in certain sizes, and regulznly-` sizeddovetails, but otherwise in' any imaginable shape or form, there is noend to the different shapes that can be produced.

But another great advantage is, that the frames 'so produced will notbreak the moulding by warping.v v

WVe do not, of course, confine ourselves to mirror or picture-frames,but can produce window-frames, or any other straight furniture orbuilding-1nouldngs, in the same manner, and, it' dti'erent'kinds of woodare used, the vornamental effect is striking and pleasing.

Having thus described our invention,

What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- As anarticle of manufacture, straight mouldings for picture and other trames,&c.,'formed of two 'or more strips, in the manner and for the purposeshereinbev Witnesses:

EDWARD TAGGAR'I, MARK M, Pownns.

